Afshin J.

Ghajar is Regents Professor and John Brammer Professor

in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and an Honorary Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong
University, Xi’an, China. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in
mechanical engineering, from Oklahoma State University. His expertise is in
experimental heat transfer/fluid mechanics and the development of practical
engineering correlations. Dr. Ghajar has made significant contributions to the
field of thermal sciences through his experimental, empirical, and numerical
works in heat transfer and stratification in sensible heat storage systems, heat
transfer to non-Newtonian fluids, heat transfer in the transition region, and
non-boiling heat transfer in two-phase flow. His current research is in twophase
flow heat transfer/pressure drop studies in pipes with different orientations,
heat transfer/pressure drop in mini/micro tubes, and mixed convective
heat transfer/pressure drop in the transition region (plain and enhanced tubes).
Dr. Ghajar has been a Summer Research Fellow at Wright Patterson AFB
(Dayton, Ohio) and Dow Chemical Company (Freeport, Texas). He and his
co-workers have published over 200 reviewed research papers. He has delivered
numerous keynote and invited lectures at major technical conferences
and institutions.